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To: TimF who wrote (360640)	11/28/2007 7:36:57 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575520

If we absorbed Mexico it might take more than 17 years for things to get back to normal (we have the additional language burden that the Germans didn't have), but its very possible that the combination of Mexico and the US would grow faster. And even if we didn't grow faster, even if it could be shown that the merger made the whole grow slower, that would only provide a reason for the slower growth, not a reason to claim that growth was faster, or to bother with statements like - "North American growth was faster than Europe if you exclude 'The United States of MexAmerica'." Sure it would. You only use 'details' when it bolsters your argument. You can find 100 reasons why Euro medical care is 50% cheaper than ours, but you can't grasp that Germany's growth would be slowed by the absorption of impoverished East Germany? Man, be intellectually honest for a change.